[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 37 (Tuesday, March 1, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H1185]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              PUTIN'S WAR

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, I was grateful, 
as the ranking member of the U.S. delegation to the Organization for 
Security and Cooperation in Europe, to address the Parliamentary 
Assembly in Vienna, Austria. Our delegation was ably led by Co-Chair   
Steve Cohen.
  The bipartisan United States delegation of Democrats and Republicans 
being transatlantic, with our valued European and Indo-Pacific allies, 
have been unintentionally united about the Putin war of mass murder in 
Ukraine, violating the principles of the Helsinki Final Act. Here, we 
want to emphasize the devastating human cost of the Putin war against 
the families of Ukraine, isolating Russia and Belarus from the modern 
world.
  I was grateful over the years to have visited Russia a number of 
times where I was so impressed by the talented citizens. Today, they 
are being betrayed by Putin in his obsession for oil, money, and power. 
Two months ago, I visited Kyiv and it is horrifying to know of the 
attacks.
  Sadly, in Belarus, dictator Lukashenko has become a puppet 
facilitating the Putin war. It is inspiring that the legal President of 
Belarus, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, would have her first loyalty to the 
people of Belarus, not the war criminal, Putin.
  In conclusion, God bless Ukraine. God save Ukraine. Long live 
President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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